the biorhythm of a blog

after recently reading a friend's blog who moved abroad a few months ago, i recognized some similarities with my own blogging, and, as i thought more about it, everyone's blog who lives overseas. thus, after much scientific research, i'm publishing my findings:

a study of the blog life cycle of the american abroad
me, p.i.

egg - the blogger is forming in its comfortable home environment, preparing to head into its new external world. the blogger thinks, "i should start a new blog for my new life!" and details its hopes, anxieties and all the stressful and thrilling details leaving home and making a new one.

larva - in this stage, the blogger is first immersed in its new habitat and everything is fresh and exciting. you will most likely hear it full of eagerness and life. every event is an adventure, even if the adventure is finding toilet paper. the blogger thinks, "this is so unusual and exotic!" and is endeared to the new culture and surroundings which diminish the effect of new stressors. all the blogger's friends greatly support the blogger and comment diligently.

mature larva - the common post for the blogger at this stage is under the theme of "i miss." and it generally goes like this: "i miss cereal. i miss a burger. i miss *some convenient daily task*." the new-life smell is starting to fade away and the unfamiliar is left. the blogger is not given over to overt complaining, yet, because it wants to give the new culture the benefit of the doubt and simultaneously fears that people will get a bad impression.

pupa - the blogger goes into a period of blogging hibernation. the blogger at this point is reaching the point of embracing the new environment as home and all of its subsequent implications. it feels that life has become rather routine or mundane, has no amusing stories to tell, and feels that the serious tone of its thoughts aren't interesting to its blogging audience. the blogger thinks (but doesn't write), "is living here and planting roots here worth it? is this the best fit for me?"

adult - the blogger emerges with a new blogging style which it feels comfortable with, though of a different tone and mood of its previous posts. the specimen thinks, "screw it. i'm going to blog whatever i want and i don't care if other people don't think it's interesting." expect a surge of creativity, deeper ruminations, and unpredictable or random posting subjects.
the blogger is content with its blog.